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" Wall Street trading floors have long been seen as bastions of testosterone that rewarded, literally, those with sharp elbows who could throw a punch. "
Mary Pilon
Long
Wall
Sharp
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" The fitness industry has long thrived off the well-intended coming through their doors and signing up with dreams of self-improvement, only to fade into their couches. Those who stick with it often feel like hamsters on treadmills. "
Mary Pilon
Feel
Fitness
Long
" As the 19th century teetered into the 20th, the clank of typewriter keys went from solo to symphony. They were the weapon of choice for professional writers, the business elite, people with things to say and the need to say them quickly. "
Mary Pilon
Business
Choice
Professional
" I think that when you talk to people about Monopoly, they love talking about their memories associated with it. And for me, I'm the same way. I mean, when I think about Monopoly, I think of my family playing at the holidays. "
Mary Pilon
Memories
People
Family
" Journalism isn't about how smart you are. It's not about where you're from. It's not about who you know or how clever your questions are. And thank God for that. It's about your ability to embrace change and uncertainty. It's about being fearless personally and professionally. "
Mary Pilon
God
Change
Smart
" When George Hirsch ran the New York City Marathon in 1976, the first year the course snaked through all five boroughs, the event was a lean affair. He and two thousand others dodged wayward bicycles and pedestrians on the streets, with little help from an anemic police presence. "
Mary Pilon
Help
Marathon
City
" Historically, companies haven't hesitated to end their relationships with professional athletes amid scandals. "
Mary Pilon
Relationships
End
Professional
" Women's combat sports have been on a good run in the United States. Claressa Shields won a gold medal in women's boxing at the London Olympics in 2012, when it became a medal sport. American women won medals in taekwondo and judo as well. "
Mary Pilon
American
Run
Sports
" In the modern road-running era, digital photography has intersected with weekend-warrior culture, creating a golden age of social-media humblebragging. For some, the marathon course is sacred ground. For others, it's a personal movie set. "
Mary Pilon
Photography
Marathon
Culture
" Like Barack Obama's father, Trump's mother was an immigrant. But Trump doesn't often bring up his Scottish ancestry on the campaign trail. "
Mary Pilon
Mother
Bring
Father
" If bingeing on bad emergency-room-themed television has taught me anything, it's that crisis situations bring out the best and worst in people. "
Mary Pilon
Television
Best
Me
" Women in finance bore the brunt of layoffs more than their male counterparts during the Great Recession in 2008 and were also more likely to have been in back office jobs that were replaced by computers. "
Mary Pilon
Computers
Back
Women
" Once you let go of the idea of waiting for a magical lightning bolt of genius to hit, you can really get to work. "
Mary Pilon
Waiting
You
Lightning
" We spend millions on fitness each year, yet we seem to get fatter. "
Mary Pilon
Each
Spend
Year
" The America's Cup World Series was created in 2011, with an eye toward conjuring more off-cycle interest and marketing opportunities. It coincided with the ascent of foiling catamarans, a type of boat that goes faster and looks almost Photoshopped, the way it practically floats in air when it races. "
Mary Pilon
America
Boat
Eye
" Most major races, including the New York City Marathon, require runners to provide photo identification when picking up a bib. Most provide bibs only a few days before the race, shortening the window in which someone could copy a bib. "
Mary Pilon
Marathon
City
New York
" For professional athletes, the motives for cheating generally are more obvious: money, fame, and often a low likelihood of being caught. But why would a middle- or back-of-the-pack runner lie or cheat in a race that doesn't even matter? "
Mary Pilon
Lie
Cheating
Money
" Virtual reality has an exciting future and oodles of room to grow. "
Mary Pilon
Reality
Future
Virtual Reality
" The first few days without a cellphone were difficult. I felt liberated from the static of Facebook and Twitter but feared that I had missed some email or call that someone had died. "
Mary Pilon
Someone
Missed
Facebook
" One of sports journalism's great ironies is that covering an Olympics can be wildly unhealthy. NBC shows athletes in peak health performing on the ice and snow, but not the haggard reporters subsisting for three weeks on stadium starches, cheap beer, deadlines, and little sleep. "
Mary Pilon
Sports
Great
Beer
" Despite the laserlike focus it generates, 'Tetris' has no clear endpoint and no easily defined opponents. Unlike with most other video games, you're playing only against yourself, without any concrete goals other than to keep on fitting blocks into other blocks. "
Mary Pilon
Yourself
Focus
Goals
" As a journalist and longtime photographer, I love Instagram and the connection it gives me to my friends and family as I journey afar or for me to view their lives from my perch back home. "
Mary Pilon
Friends
Home
Journey
" The fall of Rome seemed unthinkable to people at the time but inevitable to historians reflecting upon it with the benefit of context. "
Mary Pilon
Time
Rome
People
" It's not uncommon for some Khmer boxers to fight with dangerous frequency, sometimes as often as weekly or bi-weekly, getting up to three hundred or more fights in a career, with the length of a career varying from fighter to fighter, some engaging in bouts far past their prime. "
Mary Pilon
Sometimes
Past
Career
" The conditions for harassment are built into the very structure of the trucking business, beginning with the training process. "
Mary Pilon
Business
Training
Beginning
" While the U.S. government is unlikely to ever limit the number of football games, plenty of parents are refusing to let their children play the sport due to the risk of head injuries. "
Mary Pilon
Parents
Football
Children
" Women's marathoning was not added as an Olympic medal event until 1984 due to unfounded and bizarre concerns among Olympic organizers about women's ability to run longer distances. It was finally added after much campaigning. "
Mary Pilon
Event
Run
Women
" Even as Instagram defines our visual moment, we use the app's filters to travel backwards in time, to make our images resemble the Polaroids of yore by casting them literally in a different, more nostalgic light. "
Mary Pilon
Light
Travel
Time
" Journalists know that often you don't grab stories, they grab you. "
Mary Pilon
Stories
You
Often
" As the issue of youth fitness - from obesity to proper exercise regimens - takes on more resonance in schools and communities across the country, CrossFit Kids and other preschool fitness programs are raising questions about when and how children should start playing organized sports or hitting the gym. "
Mary Pilon
Fitness
Sports
Children
" Before she made her bid for the U.S. presidency in 1872, Victoria Woodhull worked as one of the first female stockbrokers in the country, starting a firm, Woodhull, Claflin & Company, with her sister in 1870. "
Mary Pilon
She
Firm
Country